The price is mighty high, but considering you get 70% of the performance of a 5850, for ~56% of the price, it's in fact quite balanced when compared to the rest of the 5000 generation.
The problem here is that the overall price/perf ratio of this entire generation is too high

Is overclocked and uses LESS power than reference design, well that's a first. Nicely done, but I still like my Vapor-X

W1zzard said:

These numbers are good, but we have seen higher clocks on the Sapphire HD 5770 Vapor-X which managed 990 / 1450.

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That sure is a nice sample, mine crashed on MSI Kombustor with 950/1400 has to be core then seeing all these do over 1400 on memory. But nothing a little voltage bump don't fix, haven't just tweaked more yet.